SBA Partners Vandykesport

To this end, the President/CEO of Street Basketball Association LLC(SBA), Jerrod Mustaf accompanied by Streetball Allstar, Patrick "pat-da-roc" Robinson  will be visiting Nigeria from April 17th-27th ,2006.
 
The SBA has previously toured the Gambia as a guest of Alhaji Dr. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh recently as part of the activities to lift the game of basketball in the small West Africa country.

The SBA president was accompanied by a 40-person delegation, by which members of the SBA staff are currently training the Gambian national teams and developing the country's national basketball league.

While in NIgeria, the team will conduct clinics for Players, Coaches, Officials and Media on the latest trends in "American Street ball" development  now spearheaded by VANDYKESPORT in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt as well as participate in the launch of the Vmobile Street Ball Series.
 
VANDYKESPORT has long been associated with Street Ball development in Africa and the Middle East especially the highly successful ADIDAS STREETBALL CHALLENGE.
 
The team will also visit all the major sponsors of Basketball in Nigeria namely; Nestle Milo, Vmobile, Zenith Bank, Indomie, Sprite, Union Bank, First Bank etc and numerous media houses.

It is hoped that the visit will reinforce the strides being witnessed in the game in Nigeria and lead to several levels of technical assistance for the game.
 
According to Mustaf, "Nigeria has always had the potential for greatness and we see this alliance with VANDYKESPORT as strategic to the long term advancement of the game of basketball and the overall development of youth in Nigeria. "We will support the Nigeria Basketball Federation and all lovers and stakeholders alike."
 
In his remarks, Emeka Enyadike believes "the game can only truly evolve when a conscious effort is made to take the game to the community. We can only learn from the expertise of the SBA"